HRC York
@hrcyork.bsky.social
Humanities Research Centre, University of York. Supporting research in the Arts and Humanities.
With the new Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo described as "one of the most ambitious cultural projects in modern history", Jo Fletcher from @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social was asked for interviews by various international news channels and Egypt's national TV channel Nile News and magazine Akher Sa’a.
November 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
With the new Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo described as "one of the most ambitious cultural projects in modern history", Jo Fletcher from @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social was asked for interviews by various international news channels and Egypt's national TV channel Nile News and magazine Akher Sa’a.
HRC's Deputy Director @marianajlopez.bsky.social wrote a blog post about the #DARCI Conference on Disability, Accessibility and Representation in the Creative Industries hosted by @school-of-act.bsky.social as part of the #EnhancingAD project enhancingaudiodescription.com/darci-confer...
October 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM
HRC's Deputy Director @marianajlopez.bsky.social wrote a blog post about the #DARCI Conference on Disability, Accessibility and Representation in the Creative Industries hosted by @school-of-act.bsky.social as part of the #EnhancingAD project enhancingaudiodescription.com/darci-confer...
Grace McCulloch from the Archaeology Data Service is leading the workshop 'Unearthing Herbal Histories with Digital Archives' as part of the @beinghumanfest.bsky.social Join the team to create your own herbal remedies, inspired by archaeological evidence www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/unear...
Unearthing Herbal Histories with Digital Archives
Create your own herbal remedies, inspired by archaeological evidence.This hands-on workshop combines archaeobotanical information from digital archives with traditional herbalism to create remedies, b...
www.beinghumanfestival.org
October 13, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Grace McCulloch from the Archaeology Data Service is leading the workshop 'Unearthing Herbal Histories with Digital Archives' as part of the @beinghumanfest.bsky.social Join the team to create your own herbal remedies, inspired by archaeological evidence www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/unear...
Welcome to Robin Pawlett-Howell from the Department of Philosophy, one of our new HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! 🎉 Robin's main research specialisations are in existential phenomenology and social/political philosophy.
October 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Welcome to Robin Pawlett-Howell from the Department of Philosophy, one of our new HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! 🎉 Robin's main research specialisations are in existential phenomenology and social/political philosophy.
Continuing to introduce our new HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! Today we are welcoming Sarah McKeagney 🎉 Sarah is a late-medieval social historian focusing on law and the courts in 15th century England. Sarah's thesis focused on breach of faith and perjury litigation in late medieval England.
September 30, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Continuing to introduce our new HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! Today we are welcoming Sarah McKeagney 🎉 Sarah is a late-medieval social historian focusing on law and the courts in 15th century England. Sarah's thesis focused on breach of faith and perjury litigation in late medieval England.
We are continuing to welcome our HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! 🎉 Today we are featuring Yorgos Paschos from Archaeology. Yorgos will be conducting research focusing on the role of euphoric value in heritage significance assessment.
September 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
We are continuing to welcome our HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! 🎉 Today we are featuring Yorgos Paschos from Archaeology. Yorgos will be conducting research focusing on the role of euphoric value in heritage significance assessment.
Welcome to Lore Lixenberg, one of this year's HRC Postdoctoral Fellows. Lore will explore how AI can reimagine the vocal and compositional techniques of the medieval composer Guillaume de Machaut, asking how new technologies might offer new ways of engaging with medieval music.
September 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Welcome to Lore Lixenberg, one of this year's HRC Postdoctoral Fellows. Lore will explore how AI can reimagine the vocal and compositional techniques of the medieval composer Guillaume de Machaut, asking how new technologies might offer new ways of engaging with medieval music.
Introducing you to our new HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! 🎉 We are welcoming Ishita Krishna from @school-of-act.bsky.social Ishita's research engages with a study of objects in western modernist drama, looking at different representations of objects, objectification, and subject-object encounters.
September 15, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Introducing you to our new HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! 🎉 We are welcoming Ishita Krishna from @school-of-act.bsky.social Ishita's research engages with a study of objects in western modernist drama, looking at different representations of objects, objectification, and subject-object encounters.
Introducing you to our new HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! 🎉 We are delighted to be welcoming Bryony Aitchison, whose PhD explored queer gardens in the poetry and life writing of modernist women writers. She examined how the embodied act of gardening generates queer organic forms in modernist texts.
August 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Introducing you to our new HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! 🎉 We are delighted to be welcoming Bryony Aitchison, whose PhD explored queer gardens in the poetry and life writing of modernist women writers. She examined how the embodied act of gardening generates queer organic forms in modernist texts.
Delighted to be welcoming Xinrui Zhang from History of Art as an HRC Postdoctoral Fellow 🎉 Xinrui's doctoral research examined how international artists have facilitated public discourse on China’s ecological issues in relation to the country’s environmental governance.
August 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Delighted to be welcoming Xinrui Zhang from History of Art as an HRC Postdoctoral Fellow 🎉 Xinrui's doctoral research examined how international artists have facilitated public discourse on China’s ecological issues in relation to the country’s environmental governance.
Introducing the 2025-2026 HRC Postdoctoral Fellows 🎉starting with @marisapmichaud.bsky.social whose PhD examined an illuminated manuscript of the hagiography of Colette of Corbie examining the early visual culture of the Colettine Poor Clares.
August 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Introducing the 2025-2026 HRC Postdoctoral Fellows 🎉starting with @marisapmichaud.bsky.social whose PhD examined an illuminated manuscript of the hagiography of Colette of Corbie examining the early visual culture of the Colettine Poor Clares.
Throwback to the Doctoral Competition back in May! We are really proud of our wonderful HRC Doctoral Fellows, selected by their academic units through a competitive process. In May we all got together to hear about their wonderful work and for an exciting prize giving event.
July 29, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Throwback to the Doctoral Competition back in May! We are really proud of our wonderful HRC Doctoral Fellows, selected by their academic units through a competitive process. In May we all got together to hear about their wonderful work and for an exciting prize giving event.
Aimee Little and Andy Needham, Department of Archaeology's @cama-york.bsky.social have just released some new research with colleagues from the University of Helsinki, identifying how Mesolithic people may have extracted animal teeth for personal ornaments link.springer.com/article/10.1...
July 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Aimee Little and Andy Needham, Department of Archaeology's @cama-york.bsky.social have just released some new research with colleagues from the University of Helsinki, identifying how Mesolithic people may have extracted animal teeth for personal ornaments link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Congratulations to Lesley Schatzberger, who teaches clarinet at @school-of-act.bsky.social and was awarded an OBE in the King’s Birthday Honours 2025 for services to children with life-limiting illnesses and communication difficulties jessiesfund.org.uk/founder-lesl...
July 14, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Congratulations to Lesley Schatzberger, who teaches clarinet at @school-of-act.bsky.social and was awarded an OBE in the King’s Birthday Honours 2025 for services to children with life-limiting illnesses and communication difficulties jessiesfund.org.uk/founder-lesl...
We are proud to share this wonderful Research Journey piece about @helenlouisecowie.bsky.social from the Department of History. While most historians focus their attention on the lives of humans in the past, Helen has chosen to uncover the often forgotten lives of animals 🐾 tinyurl.com/bdzyxwh5
YORK RESEARCH JOURNEYS - Helen Cowie
features.york.ac.uk
July 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
We are proud to share this wonderful Research Journey piece about @helenlouisecowie.bsky.social from the Department of History. While most historians focus their attention on the lives of humans in the past, Helen has chosen to uncover the often forgotten lives of animals 🐾 tinyurl.com/bdzyxwh5
We love a research story about wolf cubs...especially Ice Age ones 🐾 Anne Kathrine Runge from Archaeology used ancient DNA methods to learn that the pups were from the same litter and they had eaten woolly rhinoceros and a wagtail before dying in their den tinyurl.com/msavwu8n
Famous Ice Age ‘puppies’ likely wolf cubs and not dogs, study shows
New analysis of the remains of two ‘puppies’ dating back more than 14,000 years ago has shown that they are most likely wolves, and not related to domestic dogs, as previously suggested.
www.york.ac.uk
July 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
We love a research story about wolf cubs...especially Ice Age ones 🐾 Anne Kathrine Runge from Archaeology used ancient DNA methods to learn that the pups were from the same litter and they had eaten woolly rhinoceros and a wagtail before dying in their den tinyurl.com/msavwu8n
Congratulations to the amazing Megan Russell for her YUSU Excellence Award for her work on Supporting Student Voice Activities and Partnerships 🏆 So well deserved, and we are delighted that the wonderful work she does is being recognised by our community 😊
June 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Congratulations to the amazing Megan Russell for her YUSU Excellence Award for her work on Supporting Student Voice Activities and Partnerships 🏆 So well deserved, and we are delighted that the wonderful work she does is being recognised by our community 😊
This September the @school-of-act.bsky.social is hosting the #DARCI Conference on Disability, Accessibility and Representation in the Creative Industries as part of the #EnhancingAD project. Early bird registration closes end of June 🐥 enhancingaudiodescription.com/darci-confer...
June 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
This September the @school-of-act.bsky.social is hosting the #DARCI Conference on Disability, Accessibility and Representation in the Creative Industries as part of the #EnhancingAD project. Early bird registration closes end of June 🐥 enhancingaudiodescription.com/darci-confer...
The Celebrating Qualitative Research Conference 2025 is taking place next week and there's still time to register 😀 One of the organising team members, @claunader.bsky.social, is one of our wonderful HRC Postdoctoral Fellows www.york.ac.uk/business-soc...
Celebrating Qualitative Research Conference 2025
The Celebrating Qualitative Research Conference 2025 aims to provide a platform for York researchers to reflect on research and development, synthesise and apply knowledge and best practices in qualit...
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June 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The Celebrating Qualitative Research Conference 2025 is taking place next week and there's still time to register 😀 One of the organising team members, @claunader.bsky.social, is one of our wonderful HRC Postdoctoral Fellows www.york.ac.uk/business-soc...
Congratulations to all Arts and Humanities Doctoral Researchers who presented their work in the @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social's Family Fun Afternoon 😊 They had the task of adapting their research to make it interactive for families, and they succeeded, providing a range of amazing activities. A 🧵
June 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Congratulations to all Arts and Humanities Doctoral Researchers who presented their work in the @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social's Family Fun Afternoon 😊 They had the task of adapting their research to make it interactive for families, and they succeeded, providing a range of amazing activities. A 🧵
Dr Hannah Roche (@heroche.bsky.social), Senior Lecturer at York and Prof. Katy Mullin (University of Leeds) have been working on the Brontës and coercive control as part of an AHRC-funded project. You can read more about their work in this article theconversation.com/emily-bronte...
Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is a dark parable about coercive control
Wuthering Heights explores the absolute power that marriage can grant to abusive men.
theconversation.com
June 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Dr Hannah Roche (@heroche.bsky.social), Senior Lecturer at York and Prof. Katy Mullin (University of Leeds) have been working on the Brontës and coercive control as part of an AHRC-funded project. You can read more about their work in this article theconversation.com/emily-bronte...
Delighted to be hosting the Festival Fringe Family Fun Afternoon @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social on Sat 7th June. An interactive day with lots of different activities to enjoy and led by our wonderful doctoral researchers. We will be in the Ron Cooke Hub 1 to 4pm 🥳 tinyurl.com/yh92dz6a
Festival Fringe Family Fun Afternoon
Join us for an afternoon of energetic, creative, crafty, puzzling, scientific and historical fun at this year’s Festival Fringe Family Fun Afternoon.
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May 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Delighted to be hosting the Festival Fringe Family Fun Afternoon @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social on Sat 7th June. An interactive day with lots of different activities to enjoy and led by our wonderful doctoral researchers. We will be in the Ron Cooke Hub 1 to 4pm 🥳 tinyurl.com/yh92dz6a
Congratulations to the 2025 HRC Doctoral Fellows 😊 Selected by their academic units, yesterday we got to hear about their exciting research. As part of the competition we also awarded additional prizes to Mengjin Xue (History), Gemma Shearwood (History of Art) and Yannick Signer (Archaeology)
May 22, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Congratulations to the 2025 HRC Doctoral Fellows 😊 Selected by their academic units, yesterday we got to hear about their exciting research. As part of the competition we also awarded additional prizes to Mengjin Xue (History), Gemma Shearwood (History of Art) and Yannick Signer (Archaeology)
This week we'd like to shine the spotlight on the Picturing Grief project, which was done in collaboration with the Department of Philosophy (@griefyork.bsky.social). Engage with the beautiful photos, as well as the important resources and purpose behind them www.projectinggrief.com/picturing-gr...
May 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This week we'd like to shine the spotlight on the Picturing Grief project, which was done in collaboration with the Department of Philosophy (@griefyork.bsky.social). Engage with the beautiful photos, as well as the important resources and purpose behind them www.projectinggrief.com/picturing-gr...
Tim Leandro, Senior Lecturer in Directing for Film and Television at the School of Arts and Creative Technologies has just had his book published. The book focuses on his personal take on directing after a lifetime in the industry. Designed to inform, educate and entertain.
May 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Tim Leandro, Senior Lecturer in Directing for Film and Television at the School of Arts and Creative Technologies has just had his book published. The book focuses on his personal take on directing after a lifetime in the industry. Designed to inform, educate and entertain.